Fire at the MKM hotel in central Moscow. What is known

On the evening of February 21, a fire broke out in a building on Mezhdunarodnaya Street in Moscow, where the MKM hotel and a hostel are located. According to the latest data, as a result of the incident, seven people died, including two children, and 11 people were injured. Learn more about the crash in RTVI hardware.
The signal about the ignition of a 17-story building in a building on Mezhdunarodnaya Street in central Moscow was received at 9:20 p.m. Moscow time. In the building from the 1st to the 4th floor are the rooms of the MKM hotel, on the remaining floors there is a former hostel, which was transferred to the housing stock. By data Ministry of Emergency Situations, the fire broke out on the fifth floor of the building.
Initially, the department’s press service informed The fire killed six people, including two children. On the morning of February 22, the TASS, citing the emergency services, specified that the number of victims increase up to seven, 11 other people were injured.
“One victim died in hospital, bringing the total death toll to seven. Among them are two children. 11 people were injured, nine of them were hospitalized, two received outpatient medical assistance” , noted the interlocutor of the agency.
The fire was extinguished at 11:43 p.m. over an area of ​​300 m². meters, a total of 200 people were evacuated from the burning building. For residents of a burned house organized temporary accommodation.
In emergency departments reported TASS that the preliminary cause of the fire was arson. According to eyewitnesses, one of the tenants of the apartment set fire to objects in the hallway of the building.
Capital GSU SK excited criminal case under Art. 238 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Provision of services that do not meet security requirements”). The department’s press office said the dead had been poisoned with carbon monoxide. Investigation located under the supervision of the Moscow prosecutor Denis Popov.
Later, the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia for Moscow reported that the acting head of the central office in Moscow, Yuri Tkachenko, and his driver were injured in an accident while they were going to the scene of the fire. They are hospitalized.